Press-standard.



No. 710,632. Patented Oct. 7, |902.

' C. TURRICELLAS.

PesslsTANnAno, (Applimion 'med sept. 2o, 1901.) (lo'lodal.) 2 Sheets-Sheet L Patented dcr. 7, |902.

C. TURRICELLAS.

PRESS STANDARD.

(Application led Sept. 20, 1901.)

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

lUNTTnn STeTns FATENT Ormes.

CHARLES TORRIOELLAS, OF IEARTOW, FLORIDA, ASSIGNOR OF TVVO-TI'IIRDS TO RICHARD RENSELAR FOOTE AND VILLIAM VAN FLEET, OF BARTOV,

FLORIDA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,632, dated October '7, 1902.

Application filed September 20,1901. Serial No. 75,902. (No model.l

To /t//Z 'mh/mt it Duty concern:

Beit known that I, CHaRLEs Tonniounnas, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ilartow, in the county of Polk and State of Florida, have invented a new and useful Press- Standard, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in standards adapted especially for use in conlo nection with improvised presses-such as cheese-presses for domestic use, cider and wine presses, and the like; and my invention consists in the peculiarconstruction and combination of devices hereinafter described and i5 claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide standards which are adapted for use in connection with boxes, barrels, or olhersuitable receptacles and with a power mechanism,

zo suoli as an ordinary jack-screw, toimprovise a press for domestic use which is entirely efficient as a cheese, cider, wine, or similar press.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a side elevation of a press which comprises a box, a follower, a jack-screw, a cross-bar, and

a pair of my improved standards, the said elements being assembled in operative position. Fig. 2 i's a detail perspective View of one of my improved standards. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a modified form of my improved press-standard. Fig. 4 is'a side elevation of a press in which a pair of said standards are employed.

In the embodiment of my invention I provide a pair of standards I, each of which has an opening 2 at its upper end and a supporting-foot 3 at its lower end at an angle to the standard. Each standard is composed of a 40 bar which is bent substantially in the form of an inverted letter U to form a yoke having the depending legs 4. The lower ends of the legs are turned at right angles, as at 5. A cross-bar G is secured to the depending legs 4 near the upper end of the standard to form the openng2. On the standard, at the lower end thereof, is a shoe '7, which is here shown as an angle-iron, which connects the lower portions of the depending legs of the standard and is secured on the angle portions 5 thereof. It will be understood the supporting-foot forms a ledge which projects from the innerside ofthe standard, at the lower end thereof, and that the foot is adapted to be placed under the bottom of the box, barrel, or other suitable receptacle which is to be employed as a press-box.

In order to improvise a press in accordance with my invention, I employ a suitable box, barrel, or thel like (indicated at a in Fig. I) which rests on the supporting-feet of a pair of my improved standards. A suitable crossbar b is secured or placed in the opening of the standards, so that the said cross-bar is supported above llthe press-box. A board or barrel-head c is employed as a follower, and a jack-screw Cl is employed as a power mechanism to operate the follower', the head of the jack-screw bearing under the cross-bar d, which serves to sustain the thrust thereof. A 7o press thus constructed is extremely cheap and simple, and the elements thereof are adapted to be readily assembled and disassembled and are portable, so that the press may be readily set np and removed from one point to another.

The term press-box as used in this specilication will be construed as meaning any suitable receptacle for material to be pressed, whether said receptacle be a box, barrel, tub, bucket, frame, or other vessel, and I do not limit myself in this particular.

In Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings I show a modilied form of my invention in which the standards are adapted to be varied in height, so that they may be used in connection with receptacles-such as boxes, barrels, or framesof varying vertical extent. The upper section la of each standard is of inverted- U shape, the legs 4 thereof being connected together by cross-bar 6. The said upper section is formed by bending a flat iron or steel bar into the requisite shape. The shoe 7, which is formed of angle iron or steel, has the lower leg-sections 4LPL secured at their 95 lower ends to the rear side of the vertical flange of said shoe, either by being riveted thereto or in any other suitable manner. The said lower leg-sections are formed of flat iron l or steel bars and are bent at S above the shoe 10o 7, so that their upper portions are disposed at right angles to their lower portions and adapted to lie closely against the inner sides of the upper leg-sections 4a. Said lower legsections have adjusting-openings 9, and said upper leg-sections have openings 10. By causing appropriate openings 9 to register with said openings l and passing a rod l2 through said registering openings the lower section of the standard may be attached at any desired point to the upper section thereof to vary the height of the standard, as may be desired.

Having thus described my invention, I claim* l. A press-standard comprisinga single bar having the end portions thereof bent to form downwardly-diverging legs and its intermediate portion forming a yoke, connecting the legs and adapted to bear on a cross-bar, a connecting element 6 to support the crossbar, and a laterally-extended foot, connecting the lower ends of the legs and adapted to bear under the lowerside of a press-box, substantially `as described.

2. A press-standard comprising a single bar having the end portions thereot` bent to form downwardly-diverging legs and its intermediate portion forming a yoke, connecting the legs and adapted to bear on a cross-bar, a connecting element 6 to support the crossbar, lower leg-sections forming extensions of the legs and bearing against them, the legs and lower sections having adjusting-openings, a rod to pass through said openings to adjustably secure the lower sections to the legs, and a laterally-extended foot connecting the lower sections, substantially as described.

In testimony that l claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afxed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES TORRICELLAS.

Vtnesses:

XVARREN TYLER, J. P. PHELPs. 

